Facebook CTO Bret Taylor’s Goodbye Note

Bret Taylor, chief technology officer of Facebook, is leaving the company in the summer.

Big news in the Facebook camp: Tech chief Bret Taylor is leaving the company in the summer.

Taylor told All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher that he is leaving the company after four years at the company — and two years as CTO — to work on an undetermined start-up. No doubt there will be questions whether Taylor simply caught the entrepreneurial bug after winning big in the IPO, or whether Facebook felt it needed a change.

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